1000-MILE TRIAL
Week-end Motoring Event
There will be no leisure during the Labour Day week-end for members of the Wellington Car Club who take part in the annual 1000-mile trial, which will begin early on Saturday afternoon. The trial, designed to test the reliability, stamina and general roadworthiness of the motor-cars, as well as the capabilities of the drivers, will take the 18 machines expected to start over a varied and gruelling course covering the greater part of the lower half of the North Island.
The competing cars are mostly of the light English type, some regular models and others comparatively highpowered sports machines. The event is not a race, but a time trial, and points are deducted for the failure or faultiness of any part of the equipment of each car. The trial will last three days, the loading cars being expected to return to Wellington on Monday night. The first car away will leave the Thorndon tramway sheds at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The course is as follows:— First day: Wellington to Wanganui to Te Kuiti.
Second day: Te Kuiti-Taupo-National Park-Taihape. Third day: Taihape to Napier, over the “Gentle Annie,” then from Napier to Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 22, 21 October 1937, Page 13
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1971000-MILE TRIAL Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 22, 21 October 1937, Page 13
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